Who Are Your Storm Saviors?

Did someone let you crash on their couch? Cook you a warm meal? Take care of your dog? Shovel you out? Let you watch your favorite TV show while your cable was out? Give you a ride?

Recognize the people that helped you after the Oct. 29 snow storm that knocked out power in 100 percent of Avon.

Avon resident Elsa Acosta, a nurse in training at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, was volunteering at the emergency shelter Monday when an 83-year-old woman started to have difficulty breathing and was nauseated. She helped the woman until paramedics could arrive. The woman was disoriented and stressed as a result of the storm and was taken to the hospital as a precaution.

Food has also been a concern for residents who are having to throw a lot of it out because their refrigerators don't have power. delivered 10 bags of food to regular customers' homes Monday, including vegetables, pies, bread, sausage and hot dogs.

Many other businesses are helping out, as well. in Old Avon Village was open Wednesday, offering free hairwashes and hairdrying, as well as hot coffee and a place for people to charge their phones and do laundry.

 on Simsbury Road (Route 10) was reportedly offering free showers.

Eastern Mountain Sports is selling camping stoves so people can cook food outside, as well as fuel, batteries, flashlights, clothes and handwarmers. They were open in the dark when

EMS store manager Mike Lloyd helped clear trees from hist street, Chevas Road, over the weekend. Many other neighbors are helping each other out.

Route 44 was out of power on Halloween. Big Y was one of the only other businesses open when power on Route 44 was out, along with Welcome Wine & Liquor.

The Avon Old Farms Hotel at the base of Avon Mountain and on Simsbury Road had no vacancies, but were housing some guests during the power outage.

Local municiplities and politicans did what they could to help as well. With the Red Cross, the town of Avon opened Avon High School as an emergency shelter, where hundreds of residents have cycled through in the past few days to eat, get warm, charge phones, watch television, shower and sleep. The town opened its emergency operations center at the over the weekend and there is a Connecticut Light & Power liaison there to keep officials updated as power company workers and the cleared trees from roadways to prepare for power restoration.

The responded to over 85 service calls just on the first day of the snowstorm and several more afterward. All four stations are open offering water. The on Route 44 is also offering free water fill-ups.

Who helped you during the storm? While you probably already thanked them for their hospitality or help already, give them that extra recognition by publically recognizing them and their good deed on Avon Patch

Leave your thank you in the comments below and post any photos you might have to this gallery.

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